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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Clever Hans

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

When Hans was only two years old, he became a worldwide sensation.

0:06.0

Here's what Wikipedia says.

0:08.0

He was said to have been taught to add, subtract, multiply, divide, work with fractions,

0:12.0

tell time, keep track of the calendar, differentiate between musical tones,

0:16.0

and read, spell, and understand German.

0:20.0

The New York Times was even more impressed.

0:24.0

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

0:34.0

We'll be back in a second to talk about clouds.

0:38.0

But first, here's a message from our sponsor.

0:43.0

If you can see it, you can be it.

0:46.0

But what if you never see it, then what?

0:48.0

I want my daughters and all young women to see a field of role models

0:53.0

have gone before them and inspire them to what's possible.

0:57.0

So I began the Fearless Portraits Project, an art series and podcast

1:01.0

profiling notable women of today in recent history.

1:05.0

Listen to the Fearless Portraits wherever you get podcasts.

1:09.0

More at DanLandOut.net.

1:13.0

You've probably already guessed where this is heading, but I can't resist reading part of the story

1:17.0

from the Times, which took up about a quarter of a page.

1:21.0

Hans is an expert in numbers, even being able to figure fractions.

1:25.0

He answers correctly.

1:27.0

What number of fours is an eight in sixteen and in thirty?

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